An amazing evening last night ~ so many smiles and laughs, and of course, photos! Yes, it’s the end of the school year here in Taiwan and at SJU we are gearing up for tomorrow’s graduation ceremony, and saying many … Continue reading St. John’s University Student Fellowship Graduation Party ~ SJU愛的團契 送舊晚會2018!
Ah, THE DAY finally arrived! YES! After years and years of waiting ~ they’ve FINALLY made it down the aisle, tied the knot, had the obligatory kiss AND the wedding blessing! CONGRATULATIONS! Advent Church on Saturday February 10 at 2:00 … Continue reading Wedding Blessings and Celebrations for our beloved Setu and Jacob!
And what a camp it was! Two whole days of fun, laughter, games, water fights, action songs, drama, handicrafts, prayers and much more! The theme was ‘You’re Extra-Special’ – the initials of which happen to spell ‘YES!’… and that logo was on our dark blue T-shirts too, the YES is written into the shape of Advent Church… here’s some of us in the T-shirts! The summer camp happens every year at this time, with a large group of lovely students from our SJU Student Fellowship group who spend 2-3 days in training and preparation, followed by the actual camp, open … Continue reading Advent Church Summer Camp 2017 降臨堂兒童喜樂營 ‘YES! You’re Extra-Special!’
A big welcome to chaplains and staff members representing the Federation of Chinese University and College Chaplaincies (FOCUCC) 華人大學校牧協會 for their Spring Meeting 2017 @ St. John’s University. Here they are after last night’s welcome dinner at Advent Church Center, with SJU President Ay and our SJU welcome team! FOCCUC has 14 member institutions, 3 in Hong Kong and 11 in Taiwan, and most of them are represented here. Welcome to them all! Continue reading Welcome to 華人大學校牧協會 FOCUCC Chaplains and Staff!
Day 13 #befriend #親近 Saturday December 10 ‘On my journey of faith, Mary has become a kind of friend, and our shared experience of Jesus has become a sacred communion. He invites me into her presence with contagious joy. She points me to him with fresh insight and renewed simplicity’. 在信仰的旅程中，聖母馬利亞可說是我的朋友，我們有共同的體會，就是經歷耶穌，這已成為一種神聖的「共融」（共襄盛舉之交流）。耶穌奇妙地邀我進入馬利亞的喜樂心境；馬利亞則以清新的眼光和單純的心，指點我靠近耶穌。 Supermaster and his Superfriends at St. John’s University Student Fellowship Christmas Outreach on Thursday night! Continue reading Advent Word, Day 13 ‘befriend’
Supermaster and his Superfriends were in action last night at last ~ YES! After 2 long months of rehearsals and preparation, their moment in the spotlight finally arrived ~ and what a great moment it was! A whole evening of non-stop action, colour, noise, music, dancing and singing ~ and it was wonderful! This was the Christmas Outreach evening of our Student Fellowship at St. John’s University, held in our new Advent Church Center, in use for the first time for our Christmas Outreach Program. We had singing and worship, the Supermaster drama, sharing time from our chaplain Rev. … Continue reading St. John’s University Student Fellowship Christmas Outreach 2016 ~ SJU愛的團契聖誕佈道會!
St. John’s University President Chen Jean-Lien is retiring this month after 8 years at the helm, and today was our Grand Farewell and Great Send-Off Day! The ceremony and buffet lunch was held in our new church centre at Advent Church, emceed by Shu-Jing from our chaplaincy office, and attended by faculty, staff and students. Sadly the Chair of the SJU Board of Trustees, Dr. Cecilia Koo was unable to come at the last moment ~ fortunately Bishop Lai was in attendance, representing the trustees. We had speeches, flowers and gift presentations, songs from our student fellowship and a very … Continue reading Farewell to St. John’s University President Chen Jean-Lien!
The first week of our Advent Church Children’s Summer School ~ running all summer, all day, Mondays to Thursdays, with a mix of Bible classes, homework, arts and crafts, games, computer classes etc etc, and all run by 3 of our students with the help of church members and clergy, and being held in our new church centre ~ so do please pray for them all! Fun, fun, fun ~ yes, yes, yes! Continue reading 小太陽 Advent Church Children’s Summer School 2016!
You’d never believe that anyone could have so much fun and laughter on a summer camp, and see so many smiling faces on all the children, when the theme of the summer camp is – guess what? Potentially the world’s totally least attractive and least interesting theme for a summer camp ever! Particularly when the key elements of a summer camp are always fun, fun and more fun! Every year Advent Church holds a 2-day non-residential summer camp (like a holiday club) for children aged 5-12 ~ those in the local community plus children of staff and faculty at St. … Continue reading 2016 降臨堂 ‘奔向節制’ 兒童喜樂營 Advent Church Children’s Summer Camp!
Catherine Lee 